This paper suggests that the use of listening centers with earphones for teaching listening skills may actually be depriving some young learners of crucial auditory experiences. It points out that electronic listening equipment, carelessly used, can impair hearing.
Suggestions for preventing accidental acoustic trauma and for correcting temporary conductive hearing deprivation caused by collapsed auditory canals under earphone listening are given.
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